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The view from Brittany: October 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Thursday, October 24, 2013. This may have had an impact on the – disastrous for the Greens – elections which followed. In France, the Greens are a part of the government. A few weeks ago, their (not so a) leader Pascal Durand, ". Needless to say, this has slightly tarnished their already dubious reputation. As Franz Walter stated :. Truly enlightened public" with "the blind and noisy multitude". Romanticism opposed not rationality itself but ra...
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The view from Brittany: May 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Friday, May 10, 2013. Notre-Dame-des-Landes and the risks of activism. Even if it is hardly a priority, I suspect that a significant minority of my readers have heard about the Notre-Dame-des-Landes question. For those who haven’t, I will summarize it. Notre-Dame-des-Landes ( Our Lady of the Moors. At the very end of the seventies. Unfortunately, the fight against the airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes is unlikely to go the same way. Even if ...
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The view from Brittany: June 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Thursday, June 6, 2013. Ust before tearing itself apart about whether gay people should be allowed to marry, France has gone through another political financial scandal. This is not an uncommon occurrence. We tend not to care very much about our politicians cheating on their wife, or even, like one of our former president, having two families complete with a hidden daughter. The first to come to my mind is, of course, the Affair of the Diamond ...
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The view from Brittany: September 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Wednesday, September 25, 2013. As you probably don’t know, France is ruled by a Socialist Party. Of course, this party is no more socialist than the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Its relationship with what is generally called socialism was rhetorical from the start and is becoming more and more historical with time. This, more than the Cuban or North-Korean carcinomas in situ. Even within the ephemeral framework of our civilization. These ...
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The view from Brittany: August 2012
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Monday, August 27, 2012. From Russia with narcissism. Summer months tend to be quite uneventful in France. We have earned the right to go on extended leaves in 1936 and consider it somewhat sacred, so everything is put on hold in July and August. The world feels no obligation, however, to follow French mores and two major events have happened during the last months, which triggered a number of quite revealing reactions, or non-reactions. Indeed...
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The view from Brittany: March 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Saturday, March 2, 2013. We are tropical savanna animals, at home in steppes and prairies provided there are at least a few trees in them but ill at ease in dense forests, where a predator can strike without warning. It is not by chance that we wrestled the world from our competitors at a time when most of Eurasia was covered by cold steppes. The outcome would have been very different in a warmer, wetter climate. In fact, humanity has a very lo...
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The view from Brittany: July 2013
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Thursday, July 25, 2013. We know that culture replacement happens, and this knowledge has fed apocalyptic fears of the Camps des Saints. Of those wars we know little but the ill-forts and the defensive d. Which dot the West. A few mercenaries became warlord themselves, setting up petty kingdoms – Hengist,. And of Mercia ( Pybba. On the other hands, Irish and Germanic warlords ruled what would later become Celtic kingdoms. Stuart Laycock onc...
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The view from Brittany: November 2012
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Thursday, November 15, 2012. Gay, gay, marrions-les. Homosexuality is a fact of nature. Some of us, male or female, are sexually attracted,. Modern Western civilization, and its imitators all over the world, is the only one to have created a whole social identity around it. It was also true in pre-modern Europe, even if , of course, the society as a whole was far more repressive. The effeminate XVII. The result has been a polarization of gender...
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The view from Brittany: July 2012
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Saturday, July 28, 2012. The end of the European dream. That is what Christopher’s successor, Valdemar IV, did. He used his wife’s dowry to get back some mortgaged lands he overtaxed to repay the rest of his debts. When that didn’t suffice.well, a royal army in full array could be very convincing. Those are, however, political decisions and that’s exactly the kind of decision the European Union has been designed to avoid. Century, Louis XIV of ...
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The view from Brittany: Corruption and privileges
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The view from Brittany. A Breton's perspective on the world. Thursday, June 6, 2013. Ust before tearing itself apart about whether gay people should be allowed to marry, France has gone through another political financial scandal. This is not an uncommon occurrence. We tend not to care very much about our politicians cheating on their wife, or even, like one of our former president, having two families complete with a hidden daughter. The first to come to my mind is, of course, the Affair of the Diamond ...
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